Quest for Mental Health - A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society

Informationen zum Autor Ian Dowbiggin has taught history at the University of Rochester, the University of Dallas, the University of Toronto and the University of Prince Edward Island. The author of six books on the history of medicine, he has also published in the American Historical Review, the Journal of Contemporary History, the Journal of Policy History, the Canadian Historical Review, the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. He is on the editorial board of the History of Psychiatry. Klappentext This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. Zusammenfassung The incidence of mental and emotional illness continues to rise; yet as Ian Dowbiggin shows! the quest for happiness continues. Dowbiggin argues that this trend will persist as long as the cultures of consumerism and therapism continue to hold sway over the hearts and minds of people around the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. A new egalitarianism; 3. Bricks and mortar humanity; 4. Mental hygiene; 5. A bottomless pit; 6. Emotional welfare.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Dowbiggin, Ian Robert Dowbiggin, Dowbiggin Ian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2011
• EAN: 9780521688680
• ISBN: 978-0-521-68868-0
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Cambridge Essential Histories; Cambridge Essential Histories
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Psychiatry, History of Medicine, History of Science, Mental health services